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Authors note: Thank you once again to all my wonderful reviewers. I would also like to thank those of you who corrected my spelling of "Nee-chan" to Nii-chan" I only know how it sounds, so I went with the closest in spelling. I really have crappy luck with calling Inuyasha a girl don't I? But, come on! Who can blame me! Look at his hair! *Gets growled at by an irate Inu* He he, never mind. I hope that you enjoy this chapter, and to the winners of the contest, Juno(you remember her right?) is working as fast as she can on the pictures, but she's also a perfectionist and won't give them to me until they pass inspection. Please be patient, and I promise that you won't be disappointed. Now that my ramblings are over with, go ahead and read the chapter.

Chapter Twenty-one: Halloween Surprises of the New Moon

The weekend following the trio's bonding had brought some interesting changes. For one thing, Inuyasha and Kurt's antagonistic relationship had altered. Inuyasha in big-brother-mode was almost as scary as Logan before his morning cup of black coffee. Kagome and Kurt were still very much a couple, but she was a lot more territorial, particularly where Tabitha was concerned, and he was almost constantly, to use Jubilee's word, 'Nightcrawlery' whenever another guy paid a little too much attention to his girlfriend.

Most of the people at the institute just shrugged it off as being just his overprotective-boyfriend privileges at work in him, at least until Duncan Matthew's had thought it would be funny to piss of the 'Foreign-freak-boy' by trying to hit on his girl.

Duncan quickly abandoned his half-baked plan after Kurt knocked the classroom door off it's hinges and Inuyasha(Although Holo-disguised at the time, same as Kurt) bent the metal door off his locker. Even more convincing than either of those however was the feeling of said foreign-freak-boys girl slamming her, rather heavy, book bag over his head for touching her in not so kosher places.

None of those things mattered at the moment however, since it was the weekend now, and all school related problems could be put aside for a few blissful days of freedom.

Unless you were Kurt or Inuyasha. Who had jet detail for the whole weekend since they had 'defaced school property'.

After a tiring morning of waxing the 'Blackbird' Kurt had taken a shower and ported down to grab a quick snack before going in search of his girlfriend. Running across Jamie, he learned that she was down in the gym in the lower levels with Jubilee. Jamie was sulking since Kagome had taken away his gaming partner and the poor boy had no one to help him blow up things in a gory and spectacular manner on the big-screen T.V in the game room. Kurt sent him to find Shippo.

The sight that greeted him once he reached the gym would be forever burned into his retinas to be replayed again and again.

Kagome, in a skin tight leotard, light sweat gleaming on her skin and a delightful flush highlighting her lovely cheekbones, was balancing on the high beams of the gymnastic equipment that the professor had put into the gym, originally for him, but now Jubilee used it and, apparently, so did his girlfriend. At least, she did now.

Kurt's mind turned to mush and he slowly sank down into a sitting position, never taking his eyes off Kagome. Something about seeing his girlfriend being that flexible made him feel as if the room was suddenly too warm.

A low chuckling to his left caused him to shift his eyes a little, then raise an eyebrow. "What are you doing here?"

Inuyasha came out of his hiding place in a shadowed corner and into the light, giving the mutant teen a narrow-eyed look. "Watching you drool all over yourself."

Kurt snorted, he was not in the mood for this right now. All he wanted was a large snack, a comfy couch, and some kisses from his Kagome. "Vhatever."

The dog-hanyou chuckled "Keep lookin' at her like that and I might mistake you for the monk elf-boy."

Kurt growled in mild annoyance. "Inuyasha, don't make me kill you." He turned fully and gave the silver haired male a smirk. "There's probably some sort of form I'd have to fill out and my written English isn't good enough for that level of paperwork yet."

Inuyasha snorted again. "Yeah right, like you could!" Then he gave Kurt a curious look. "Do you really have to fill out papers if you kill someone here?"

Kurt, knowing how much Inuyasha hated all forms of writing, particularly if it in any way resembled homework, nodded seriously. "Oh yes, tons."

Inuyasha grunted in surprise. 'Humans and their weird ideas.'

The sound of someone clearing their throat behind the two of them caused Inuyasha to let out an indignant sounding squeak that he would later vehemently deny had ever come out of his mouth and had Kurt jerking into a standing defensive maneuver so fast that his head spun.

Jubilee bobbled, which made her angry, since the three now standing in the doorway where making so much noise they threw her off, and chucked her water bottle at Kurt's head.

Kagome giggled at her boyfriends indignant expression and hopped gracefully down from the bar. Wiping sweat off with the towel provided by Kitty who had been doing yoga in the corner and walked up to the unannounced guest.

"Ready to go?" She smiled cheerfully at the tall male.

"I don't see why you insist on this Sesshomaru taking you when your mate would do just as well."

Kagome's smile never slipped. "Because you need to get out more, your too pale."

Sesshomaru followed her out of the gym complaining bitterly. "I have always been pale! And I'll have you know that I get out plenty!"

Kurt glanced between the two people as they were all walking up the stairs. "Liebes, where are you going?"

Kagome threw an even sunnier smile over her shoulder at him. "That's a secret fuzzy, and Sesshomaru get out of my room!"

She shoved the mighty 'Demon Lord of the West' out of her doorway, narrowly missing his nose as she shut it in his face.

He growled. "Ungrateful wench."

Kurt turned his attention to the silver haired half sibling of the annoying dog-demon downstairs. "So..where are you going?"

Sesshomaru never turned away from trying to fry a hole in Kagome's door with his gaze alone. "As the wench said, it's a secret. You'll know in due time."

Kagome came out of her room a few minutes later, dressed in a pair of jeans, a tank-top and one of Kurt's button down shirts that she had 'borrowed' and that he pretended not to notice was missing.

It looked better on her than it did on him anyway.

"I'll be back before dinner sweetie." She gave him a brief, but passionate kiss, pulling away before his arms, or tail, could wrap around her.

As they made their way down the stairs towards the main entrance Kagome glanced at the strange decorations that an army of Jamie's was putting up.

"Where ya off to Kag?"

Kagome looked over at her Scottish friend who was busy helping the Jamie's.

"Setting up Kurt's 'surprise" She winked.

Rahne's eyes lit up in understanding. Every girl at the institute new about the 'Surprise' and all where keeping quiet about it. "Good luck then."

Kagome smiled at her and waved at three vaguely confused looking Jamie's then followed an impatient Sesshomaru out the door.

She turned around an blinked as an ugly old mans face loomed directly in font of her. "Eh?"

Then looked down, and down, and down.

"YOU!!" Two voices cried simultaneously.

She reached out and grabbed at the staff with the ugly heads that had been in her face..

And unceremoniously began beating the crap out of what appeared to be a ancient looking little old man who's appearance suggested that he was older than the hills.

Come to think of it, he probably was.

"Would you please stop abusing Jaken Kagome." Sesshomaru sighed long-sufferingly.

Kagome snorted, then placed the staff over the quivering lump that used to be Jaken and climbed into the back of the limousine.

It was Sesshomaru, he liked to ride in style, go figure.

Once everyone was settled, and Jaken had been roused from unconsciousness, they got on their way.

"So everything's set up right? The tickets are bought and your going to pick them up next month?"

"Yes, yes. You doubt this Sesshomaru?"

"Sesshy-chan don't talk in the third person, and of course I didn't doubt you!"

"Then why did you insist on coming out here for?" He raised a finely shaped eyebrow.

Kagome shrugged. "We couldn't very well talk at the mansion, anyone could hear."

The demon lord sigh and hung his head. "Have you ever head of a telephone? Its this amazing modern invention that you can use to call some one with."

Kagome snorted. "Don't be an ass."

"So why, exactly, are we riding around town? Just to talk?"

Kagome grinned at him. "Well, that was part of it" Then her grin turned positively evil. "And I needed to do a little shopping."

Sesshomaru, like all males, had an inherent fear of females and the word shop. Pulling himself together and fixing his most regal glare on his features he looked her right in the eyes. "No."

Kagome's eyes became big and watery, her bottom lip started to tremble and she sniffled.

'It's not going to work. I know the puppy-eyes look. I am immune. I created that look when I was a pup for crying out loud! Nope, not looking. Notdammnit' Heaving a great sigh, Sesshomaru gave in to the inevitable. "Fine."

After signaling to Jaken the new destination he turned back and faced a triumphant looking Kagome. "Thank you Sesshy!"

He just growled and grumbled. It was no use arguing anyway, he'd learned that a long time ago.

Kagome glanced out the window for a few minutes then turned back to Sesshomaru. "I really don't understand what this whole Halloween thing is about. Jube's tried to explain, but I just don't think I got it. Jean and kitty said that we're having a costume party at the mansion tomorrow so I need to pick one up, but what is it aboutdo you know?"

Sesshomaru continued to look out the window, watching as people stared at the limousine, trying to see who it was inside. "Halloween is a celebration of the dead. According to legend it is the one night out of the year that the dead are aloud to return to walk the earth again."

Kagome had a brief mental picture of Kikyo showing up on the institute's door step, inquiring as to whether Inuyasha felt like vacationing in hell for the holidays, and shuddered dramatically.

Then she imagined Rogue's reaction to the dead miko and chuckled evilly while Sesshomaru kept glancing at her in concerned confusion.

'Speaking of the walking clay-pot' "Hey Sesshomaru."

The youkai lord turned and glanced at her.

Kagome gave him the big, starry eyes again. "How much do you love me?"

'Oh no, I remember this.' His eyes narrowed. "Why? What do you want?"

Kagome affected a wounded expression. "What makes you think I want something?"

Sesshomaru laughed self mockingly. "Because you've tried this on me before."

'God damn me!' Then she blinked at the absurdity of her last thought. 'Wait, that was a little weird'

Shaking it off she turned back to the silver haired man seated across from her. "I know you can't tell me anything about the future without messing it up but I was wondering" She paid close attention to his face. "Whatever happens to Kikyo? Did she ever re-die or anything? Or is she still around?"

His eyes lit up in intense amusement and he snickered briefly before he managed to wipe all expression from his face.

"You know I'm not allowed to tell you anything." He monotoned.

She sighed and nodded, but wondered at his reaction to the question. What could be so funny about Kikyo?

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Kurt sent a pleading look at Scott.

He had just explained the concept of Halloween to the group from Japan, and had received a very strange reaction.

Each one of their eyes glazed over and a collective shudder ran through the group.

They all managed to blink themselves out of it.

Except Inuyasha.his eyes stayed glazed.

Trying to explain the use of costumes was just as difficult.

"But why do we need to wear a disguise if we're not hiding from anyone?" Sango, ever the rational one, asked.

"Feh! I'm not dressing up for some stupid human party!"

Three guesses who that came from, and the first two don't count.

"I'll just go as you! I can use that watch thingy!" Shippo.

"I'll just go as a humble priest." Of course, mustn't forget everyone's favorite hentai.

"Humble! You've got to be fucking joking!" Again, can you guess?

Kurt sighed as the arguments continued, sending a withering glare in Scott's direction, that red-eyed jerk was enjoying this.

'I wish Kagome was here.'

Poor Kurt.

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Of course, Kagome did eventually come back. Right before dinner, just as she'd promised. Sesshomaru had dropped her off and then turned around and run out of there so fast it seemed his legs were independent of his body.

Kagome had smiled cheerfully and told her loving boyfriend all about her day torturing Sesshomaru and Jakenoops! I meant shopping.

That night was fairly uneventful. They watched some classic horror films like wolf man, which Rahne had gotten a kick out of, and Frankenstein. After eating a good portion of the candy set out for trick-or-treaters the next day they trudged up the stairs and went to bed.

Most of the next day was spent setting things up for the party. Or, I should say that the girls set things up while the boys complained.

Afterwards the girls had all disappeared upstairs to prepare, leaving the boys to wonder what really goes on when a bunch of females came together and talked.

Inuyasha had tried to listen in only to have Kagome sit him about three times, leaving him extra sulky. He was already pouting because today was the day of the new moon, or night if you wanted to nit-pick.

Kagome came down dressed as, surprisingly enough, Inuyasha.

She wore a red outfit just like his that Sesshomaru had helped her find, a plastic sword, no shoes, and she'd allowed Shippo to use one of his minor illusions to turn her hair temporarily white. To top it all off, the little fox kit had even added a pair of white ears.

Inuyasha snorted in amusement, then turned back to the window and sulked as he watched the sun sink below the horizon.

Kagome sighed and sat on the sofa. "Come on Inu, it's not so bad."

He just grunted. "How would you know, this ever happen to you?" He asked sarcastically.

Kagome growled at him as the sun finally set. Then blinked as nothing happened. No hair turning black, no human earsnothing.

"UhInuyasha?"

The hanyou was so busy brooding that he hadn't even noticed his lack of, well.humanity.

"Inuyasha?"

He whirled around and glared at her. "What?!"

"EEP!!" Kagome scrambled backwards, knocking over the coffee table and darting behind the sofa, peeking over the top of it cautiously.

Inuyasha could smell her fear. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

She continued to watch him from behind the relative safety of the couch. "Inuyasha? Are youwell, you?"

His eyebrows drew together in confusion. "Who the hell else would I be? Did you hit your head or something?"

Kagome gulped and slowly edged out from behind the furniture. Walking carefully over to stand in front of him. Crouching down, she looked him in the eye and said one word.

"Youkai."

He blinked at her. "What?"

"Youkai. You're a youkai."

He shook his head in amusement. "And you just now figured this out? I've been one since I was born stupid. I'm half, remember."

Kagome shook her head slowly. "No. Full youkai."

"Eh?" He stood up and glanced at his reflection in the glass window in front of him. Then blinked. And blinked again.

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!!"

He looked like himself, just not. His eyes were red with blue slitted pupils, his fangs were longer and so were his claws. He had two purple strips running down each cheek as well. "The fuck?"

Kagome stood next to him. "This is how you looked when you went youkai on us a few times. But..you were never aware of what was going on before, so why now? And why aren't you human?"

Inuyasha perked up at that realization. "That's right I'm not!" He smiled with his too large fangs. It looked rather disturbing.

Kagome turned as Kurt came into the room, staring at his hand. "Fuzzy, why aren't you wearing your costume?"

Kurt blinked and looked up at her. "I have fingers.."

Kagome raised an eyebrow and nodded slowly. "That's right sweetiethree of them."

Kurt shook his head. "No..five." And he wiggled all five digits on his right hand.

Kagome and Inuyasha blinked. Then she turned to the full youkai next to her. "Guess we know where your human went."

They certainly managed to make an impression at the party.

Sango had been forced into a dress by the other girls and had come as a princess.

Of course, what is a princess with out her dashing knight in shining armor.

On the other hand..most princesses didn't try to bludgeon their knight with his plastic sword so I suppose that some concessions had to be made.

Sango and Miroku had almost caused a panic once they saw Youkai-Inuyasha, but after being told what was going on("Don't worry guys I'm completely rational." "Ha! When have you ever been rational?!" "Shut up, half breed." "Don't talk to Kagome like that." "You shut up too Human." "He's enjoying this too much." "Sigh") Had calmed down.

Hank, of course, had been absolutely fascinated and Kouga had been freaked at first and then amused, as he appeared to be by most things anymore.

Most of the X-men had wondered at why Kurt came as his Holo-self and were shocked to discover that he wasn't even wearing it. That he was, in fact, completely human looking. The only drawback was when he'd discovered that he couldn't port at all and had a momentary panic-attack until Kagome had reassured him that he should return to his blue, fuzzy and elfish self by morning and could teleport all over the place then.

The professor had come dressed as the captain from Star Trek and Logan was a klingon, which worked, in a bizarre way. Storm dressed as a flower. Beast was dressed up like a hippie, which was incredibly funny on the large blue scholar. Kouga had come as, ironically enough, wolf man.

Rahne was a banshee, Rogue a vampire(She and Inuyasha made a disturbing, but strangely cute couple) Jean was dressed as a cow-girl, while Amara had refused to participate stating that she only followed Nova Roman holy days and would not make a fool of herself in such a manner. She did, however, show up to the party, if only to laugh at the ridiculous outfits that people had come in. Tabby was dressed as a French maid(Kagome kept growling every time the girl came within a few feet of Kurt *Urge to kill..rising*) Jubilee was dressed as Logan, which everyone but him had found amusing. Kitty had dressed up as her name, Kagome thought that a black cat was very appropriate.

The boys were a little weird though, as they usually tend to be.

Scott came as an X-man. He just wore his uniform. Jubilee threw Cheetos at him.

Remy, thinking he was pulling a great joke, dressed up as Magneto. And almost got blasted to kingdom come by everyone in the room. He spent the rest of the night with the helmet off.

Jamie came as Alibaba and his forty thievesliterally.

Bobby dressed up as spider-man and kept shooting ice-webbing from his hands and hanging from the ceiling until it melted. He only landed in the ranch dip once!

Evan was about as talented as Scott when it came to thinking up costumes. He'd come as a zombie skater. Jubilee had run out of Cheetos so Kagome let her have what was left of her carrot sticks as ammunition.

All in all, the evening turned out ok. Everyone enjoyed themselves and beside Inuyasha strutting around like he owned the place and Kurt wiggling his fingers at anyone who'd watch, it turned out alright.

Kagome sat back and smiled, holding Shippo who had fallen asleep, full from candy and excitement. She brushed her hand through his hair and smiled down at her kit. He'd come as Kurt alright..the real one. His control over his illusions had grown thanks to Kouga's tutoring and the boy had used what he'd learned to become a mini blue-elf. Kurt had been deeply touched by the gesture. Then he'd gone off to show Rogue that he had ten, count 'em, ten separate fingers! And he wasn't covered in blue fur either! Kagome enjoyed watching his excitement but was secretly glad that he would turn blue and fuzzy again once the sun came up.

Glancing out at the starry night sky through the window, she smiled in contentment. 'Life is good.'

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Authors note: Ok, the "Urge to kill" thing came from a Simpson's episode, just thought I should mention that. Also, the next two chapters are in what I'm calling the Holiday bit. They, of course, deal with the three Holidays that we are rapidly approaching. And are, if you hadn't already guessed, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I plan to have them out earlier than the next few months so just think of them as an early gift or something. After the three holiday chapters are over I get back to the plot(Yes it does exist, shocking I know) the next two are going to be LONG. And will involve much chaos, which is to be expected with some of the things I've got planned. Next chappie is, of course, Thanksgiving. But what is Kagome's 'surprise'? Who is Sesshomaru supposed to pick up? And another, "smaller", surprise that even Kagome doesn't know about! See ya next time! Don't forget ta review! Later. Sayin_girl.